Global Land Grabbing and Trajectories of Agrarian Change: A Preliminary Analysis

By Saturnino M. Borras Jr., J. Franco. 2012

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Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Global and Planetary Change, Soil Science

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The Political Construction of Wasteland: Governmentality, Land Acquisition and Social Inequality in South India (2013, background): “Within the land grab literature, researchers examining land transactions have found that lands classified as ‘empty’ or ‘unused’ by governments are often utilized by local communities (Borras and Franco, 2012).”
Security aspects of future renewable energy systems–A short overview (2013, background): “Land-grabbing has become a catch-all term for the current explosion of (trans)national commercial land transactions [77], which are connected not only to biofuel use, but also to diversion of food products for domestic consumption to export.”
Accumulation by securitization: commercial poaching, neoliberal conservation, and the creation of new wildlife frontiers (2016, background): “…of utilities (Bakker, 2007; Swyngedouw, 2005), life itself (Prudham, 2007), and, closely related to this paper, the phenomenon of land grabbing (Borras and Franco, 2012; Borras et al., 2012; Hall, 2013; White et al., 2012), along with a variety of neoliberal conservation practices (Benjaminsen…”
The Drivers of Maize Area Expansion in Sub-Saharan Africa. How Policies to Boost Maize Production Overlook the Interests of Smallholder Farmers (2020, positive): “However, by using this characterization, ‘certain aspects of the current global land grabbing are not fully captured nor su ﬃ ciently contextualized by it’, the authors argue [29] (p. 38).”
Sustainable livelihoods in the global land rush? Archetypes of livelihood vulnerability and sustainability potentials. Keynote presentation. (2016, background): “Outcomes often vary within heterogeneous local communities (Borras and Franco, 2012).”
Power: the missing element in sustainable consumption and absolute reductions research and action (2016, background): “…through the exercise of instrumental power, i.e. through lobbying governments to privatize land, land that other, often poor subsistence farmers have used for generations, and to sell it to large local land owners or to foreign companies and countries (Borras et al., 2012; Borras and Franco, 2012).”
Hegemonic transitions and global shifts in social metabolism: Implications for resource-rich countries. Introduction to the special section (2012, background): “The shift of land use from food production to agro-fuels is one of the major current agrarian transformations (Borras and Franco, 2012), associated not only with large-scale foreign land acquisitions, but also with processes of local land re-accumulation by national landholders.”
Land appropriation, surplus people and a battle over visions of agrarian futures in Africa (2013, background): “In a recent paper, Borras and Franco (2010, 1) concluded that ‘Land policy is back on the agendas of international development institutions and many nation-states’. These ‘mainstream policy’ approaches purport to link land policies with improved ‘governance’ and, hence, poverty alleviation. However,”
The new enclosures: critical perspectives on corporate land deals (2012, background): “Some deals involve forms of redistribution, others distribution, others non-(re)distribution and others (re)concentration (Borras and Franco 2012).”